An Adamawa State High Court has sentenced three males to death for kidnapping two Catholic priests in February 2025.
Christopher Mapeo delivered the judgement on Thursday, convicting Taledo Demiel, Namomai Medan and Mikaila Yusuf over the kidnapping of Reverend Fathers Matthew Dutsemi and Abraham Sauman.
The defendants have been discovered responsible of offences together with felony conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit armed theft, armed theft, harbouring a kidnapped particular person and negotiating to obtain ransom for the priests’ launch.
The priests have been kidnapped from their residence in Gwaida-Malam, Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State, within the early hours of twenty-two February 2025.
The police confirmed the kidnapping on the time and mentioned the state Commissioner of Police had directed safety operatives to rescue the victims and apprehend the abductors.
The State Security Service (SSS) mentioned the judgement introduced to seven the variety of death sentences secured by the service in 2026.
According to studies on the SSS assertion, the newest judgement adopted a number of different capital convictions secured in several states this yr in circumstances involving kidnapping, terrorism and different severe offences.
On 20 May, an Ekiti State High Court sentenced Ibrahim Abubakar and Abdullahi Abubakar to death for kidnapping.
On 3 June, a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced 4 males to death by hanging over their involvement within the June 2022 assault on St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, which killed scores of worshippers.
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A Katsina State High Court sentenced Hauwa’u Mukhtar to death on 15 June, whereas a Kogi State High Court sentenced Jibrin Halilu to death the next day for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour.
On 22 June, a Sokoto State High Court sentenced three males — Muhammed Yusuf Sallau, Jabbi Ahlaji Yale and Kabiru Muhammed — to death for terrorism-related offences and transporting arms.
On 28 September, one other Sokoto State High Court sentenced Ibrahim Usman, also referred to as Dan Iyali, to death over his involvement within the killing of three kidnapped individuals.
The Adamawa judgement provides to the rising variety of capital convictions recorded in Nigeria as safety companies pursue prosecutions over kidnapping and different violent crimes.
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